1st Edition

The Spiral Road Change In A Chinese Village Through The Eyes Of A Communist Party Leader

By Huang Shu-min, Shu-Min Huang Copyright 1990
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in Southeast China describes in this book forty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants to political power, the political fanaticism of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and recent efforts to restore... Read more
Introduction, Prologue, 2 Family History, 3 The Liberation, 4 Hunger, Hunger, 5 Joining the Act, 6 Return Home, 7 Security Head, 8 Prosperous Years, 9 The Breakup, 10 Village Cadres

Biography

Shu-min Huang is distinguished research fellow and director of the Institute of Ethnology at the Academic Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.